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Geography · Grade 10

Population Models and Migration

Learners test the big models of population geography against evidence: the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the debate between Malthus and Boserup about population and food, the gravity model of interaction and Zelinsky's mobility transition. They then evaluate real population policies — from China's one-child policy to Bangladesh's voluntary family planning and Hungary's pronatalist incentives — weighing outcomes and ethics.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 115 minutes
  • Population models check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, pick map regions, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Evaluate the demographic and epidemiological transition models, including their assumptions and limitations.
  • Compare Malthusian, neo-Malthusian and Boserupian views of population and resources using evidence.
  • Apply the gravity model to estimate interaction between places and explain Zelinsky's mobility transition.
  • Evaluate antinatalist, pronatalist and migration policies using outcomes and ethical criteria.

Lessons

  1. Testing the transition models 6 steps4 practiceabout 28 min
  2. Malthus, Boserup and the evidence 6 steps4 practiceabout 29 min
  3. The gravity model and the mobility transition 6 steps4 practiceabout 29 min
  4. Evaluating population policies 6 steps3 practiceabout 29 min
  5. Population models check 10 questions at the end

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